We have been a customer of Page One Power for 12 months and after a failure to glean results from the campaign have cancelled the campaign.

Poor results are a common result of business dealings but when a company employs tactics to cover up shortcomings, misrepresent results and fails to take any accountability, then this is blog-worthy.

The Contract
We have contracted with Page One Power for SEO services including email-based linkbuilding and guest blogging and would not recommend these services to a friend. The relationship spanned 12 months starting September 2013 and was for a 5-figure sum of money.
Their Guest Blogging Approach
One the P1P blog, in the few posts where they discuss strategy, guest blogging is a major component of their thinking. Of course Google's Matt Cutts discusses the fall of guest blogging as an SEO strategy in his blog. But since this is a low-cost, low-quality, high-visibility link, P1P project managers defended the practice with (emphasis mine):
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